Appeal No. 2002-2024
Application No. 09/197,404
for use in articulated coupling arrangements and slackless
drawbar assemblies which are used in the railway industry to
couple together the adjacently disposed ends of a pair of railway
type freight cars in a substantially semi-permanent fashion. In
particular, it is the embodiment seen in Figure 10 of the
application that is set forth in the claims before us on appeal.
Independent claims 1 and 18 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims can be found in the
Appendix to appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
McCloskey 3,528,714 Sep. 15, 1970
Wallace et al. 5,065,679 Nov. 19, 1991
(Wallace '679)
Narkon et al. 5,110,221 May 5, 1992
(Narkon)
Daugherety, Jr. et al. 5,172,819 Dec. 22, 1992
(Daugherety '819)
Daugherty, Jr. et al. 5,219,082 Jun. 15, 1993
(Daugherty '082)...
Claims 1 through 3, 6 through 13, 16 through 18 and 20
through 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Wallace '679 in view of Narkon.
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